Civil Rights (America)

Question 1

What was the organisation that was founded in reaction to the end of slavery?

Answer 1

Ku Klux Klan

Question 2

What does the term Segregation mean?

Answer 2

Separation of Races

Question 3

Where would segregation be found in America?

Answer 3

All over but officially in the south

Question 4

How many formations of the KKK have there been?

Answer 4

3

Question 5

Which KKK was the most popular?

Answer 5

2nd

Question 6

At its height how many members did the KKK have?

Answer 6

3.6mil

Question 7

Did African Americans fight with White Americans during World War Two?

Answer 7

No

Question 8

What was the time period of the Civil Rights Movement?

Answer 8

1954 – 1968

Question 9

What was the first major victory for the CRM?

Answer 9

Brown v Board of Education, 1954

Question 10

What was the name of the radical black power political party?

Answer 10

The Black Panther Party

Question 11

Name the peaceful leader of the Civil Rights Movement?

Answer 11

Martin Luther King Junior

Question 12

Name the radical outspoken leader of the Civil rights Movement?

Answer 12

Malcom X

Question 13

What did Rosa Parks start by refusing to move?

Answer 13

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 14

What was the date of the first Civil Rights Act?

Answer 14

1957 - Brown v Board of Education

Question 15

When was the significant Voting Rights Act passed?

Answer 15

1965

Question 16

What was the event that MLK gave his “I have a Dream” speech?

Answer 16

March on Washington – 1963

Question 17

What was the South African version of Segregation?

Answer 17

Apartheid

Question 18

What year was the Apartheid eventually ended?

Answer 18

1994

Question 19

Name the first Black President of South Africa?

Answer 19

Nelson Mandela

Question 20

Where had Nelson Mandela been for 25years, up until 1990?

Answer 20

In prison